“A Weird Exits” is more stale than fresh
By John Mattingly | August 25, 2016Following last year’s “Mutilator Defeated At Last,” Thee Oh Sees' 17th album delivers too much of the same sound that the band has cultivated for over a decade.
Following last year’s “Mutilator Defeated At Last,” Thee Oh Sees' 17th album delivers too much of the same sound that the band has cultivated for over a decade.
Followers of twentieth century spy fiction ought to be delighted by the news of a miniseries adaptation of a John le Carré novel. Originally aired in February on BBC in England, “The Night Manager,” one such adaptation, premiered on AMC in America this week.
When two horn players and a drummer walked onstage Saturday night at the Southern Café and Music Hall, it was a surprise to hear them start playing house music, dubstep and even rap.
The year is 1973. Richie Finestra (played by Bobby Cannavale) has climbed the music industry ladder from working New York City clubs to building a successful record label, American Century.
Over a span of eight years, Ty Segall has released nine albums: eight solo productions and one with the Ty Segall Band.
While “Emotionalism” maintained the rugged, stripped-down sound of their previous four albums, each of the three subsequent albums has been more popular and more polished than the last.
In Rob Reiner’s 1984 mockumentary, “This is Spinal Tap,” a member of the eponymous, fictitious rock band explains that, unlike most speaker systems, which go from one to 10, theirs go to eleven.
Soft-spoken indie folk singer José González returns with rhythmic thumping and strumming on “Vestiges & Claws,” his first solo album in seven years.